May 17th Newsletter
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  • Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
    Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
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    “This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
    Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
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    The 1982 spring issue of Parabola, featuring contributions from Ursula Le Guin and Marguerite Yourcenar. Society For The Study Of Myth & Tradition, 1982 Softcover edition. Writing on front [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
    Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
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    An overview over occultism by the enigmatic Ophiel Peach Publishing Company, 1969 Hardcover edition. Some staining and tearing to dustjacket apparent under mylar.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Narcotics And Drug Addiction
    Narcotics And Drug Addiction
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    An early pharmacological and sociological study on narcotics. Philosophical Library, 1946 Hardcover edition. Dustjacket clipped. Noticeable staining and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
    Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
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    “Michelle Remembers is a book published in 1980 co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
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    “VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Manson: In His Own Words
    Manson: In His Own Words
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    “We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as “the most dangerous man alive.” But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
    Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
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    “It’s only natural that rock and roll — “the devil’s music” — and Satanism should be intimately linked. Lucifer Rising explores this unique cultural confluence. Divided into three parts, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hubert Selby – The Demon
    Hubert Selby – The Demon
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    “Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr’s lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds — a good marriage, a good corporate job […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
    How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
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    A guide to avoid the draft, written during Vietnam. Grove Press, 1967 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Stamp and old sticker on front wrap.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
    Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
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    “It is the 1920s in New York City and an epidemic known as Jes Grew is sweeping the nation—a dancing plague, irresistible, joyful, and undeniably Black. Naturally, the powers-that-be are [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
    Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
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    “The street-wise, sexually liberated Gin has blagged and bribed her way into the decidedly insalubrious dwellings of New York for the past three years. Now, besieged by financial troubles [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
    J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
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    “The Wind from Nowhere, 1st published in ’61 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories. The […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
    Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
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    “Tells the story of an Argentinian poet, who may also represent Borges himself, and discusses the limits of literature” Dutton, 1984 Hardcover 1st edition. Corner clipped on [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
    Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
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    A monograph containing a selection of Jenny Saville’s paintings, along with writings on her work in English & Italian. MACRO, 2005 Softcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
    Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
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    “These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
    Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
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    “This is a book to delight the mind and the eye – the first collection of the poet Kenneth Patchen’s unique and remarkable “picture-poems.” As a creative form, the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
    Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
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    “A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century. It created an international sensation upon [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
    Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
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    “When Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was recruited to the stable of writers assembled by Catulle Mendès to supply L’Écho de Paris with material on a weekly basis, in July 1890, he […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
    Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
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    “Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
    High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
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    “The Hood Museum of Art presents High Society: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury, treating visitors to the largest survey of psychedelic rock posters organized in twenty-five [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
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    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harry Matthews – The Journalist
    Harry Matthews – The Journalist
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    “A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
    Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
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    The first book about Jonestown, as told by a journalist who was there and other key eyewitnesses. Berkley, 1978 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Writing on front page. Wear/discoloration to wraps [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
    Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
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    “Fille de joie, lady of the evening, lady of pleasure — delightful euphemisms. The fille de joie is seen variously as mysterious, remote, and incredibly sinful; desirable and corrupt, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
    Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
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    “Offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economical approach to underground housing based on modern construcion techniques, providing plans, details, and photographs of existing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
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    “Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
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    “From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
    Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
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    “An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is “a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc.” Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
    Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
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    “For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body’s most wondrous creations–elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
    Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
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    ““The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857). Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
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    “Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
    Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
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    Issue #2 of Matt Furie’s comic strip of anthropomorphic animals. Buenaventura Press, 2008 Comic magazine edition. Light wear to spine and corners.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges
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    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu
    Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu
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    Repressed again on black vinyl. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
    Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
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    Sun Ra’s second album was a Delmark release recorded in 1957, although it was originally intended for the Transition label, which did not survive long enough to release it. Personnel: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wipers – Is This Real?
    Wipers – Is This Real?
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    Unquestionably Portland’s most well-loved punk group, they formed in the late 70’s & in 1980 released their debut LP. 12 songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, & [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
    Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
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    When they burst out of the New York underground/CBGB’s movement, the Heads stood apart from the pack because not only were they unlike anything that gone before, they were even […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Wipers – Over The Edge
    Wipers – Over The Edge
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    Bleak, hard-driven 3rd LP (1983) offers GREG SAGE at his most chased & breathless, lashing out w/ sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. The jagged, effortless […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wipers – Youth Of America
    Wipers – Youth Of America
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    Deluxe reissue of their 2nd LP, from ’81. Mastered from the original tapes by Greg Sage himself. One of the most passionate & influential punk records ever. Broken up into […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents
    The Residents – Meet The Residents
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    Vinyl reissue of The Residents’ classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially)! Mixing everything from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
    Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
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    Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
    The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
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    The Residents released of their third album, “The Third Reich ‘n’ Roll” in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Residents – Duck Stab
    The Residents – Duck Stab
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    Musically, it’s difficult to describe this diverse album. There is a silky, seductive, and murky aspect which creates a supporting liquid background upon which the lyrics float. There is a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
    Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
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    Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Gram Parsons pioneered the concept of a rock band playing country music, playing in bands such as the Byrds, the International Submarine Band and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
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    “By the time they released Fire On the Bayou in 1975, the Meters (now a quintet, with addition of Cyril Neville to the lineup) had graduated from regional cult heroes […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
    The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
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    Vinyl LP repressing of this 1988 album from the British band fronted by the troubled genius that is Shane MacGowan. If I Should Fall From Grace With God was the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Joy Division – Closer
    Joy Division – Closer
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    Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. Closer, the band’s 1980 sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
    Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
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    Limited 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. 1979’s Unknown Pleasures features [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
    The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
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    “The Replacements’ 1981 debut, like the Stink EP that came on its heels, is laden with hardcore punk that was the flavor in underground rock of the time, albeit of […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore